THis slide explains about the industrial visit dne at Kannan Devan Hill Plantations, Munnar and its also discuss about a report on one survey conducted at Eravikulam National Park.

2. MAIN OBJECTIVES
• First one was to visit KDHP tea museum and to learn about the industrial working and
management
• Second was to conduct research in Eravikulam national park

3. KDHP PVT. LTD
• COMPANY PROFILE
o The Kannan Devan Hills Plantations company private limited (KDHP) succeeded TATA tea
limited on 1st April 2005, when the latter exited most of its plantations in Munnar to focus on the
growth of its branded tea business.
o Its 7 extensive gardens covering approximately 24,000 hectares.
oToday this company is the largest tea corporate in south India with an annual production of 21
million kg of tea.
oVirtually all its 12,000 - plus employees are its shareholders.

4. TEA GARDENS AND FACTORIES OF KDHP
The tea gardens of KDHP is spread around 7 estates.
they are,
1. Chundavurrai
2. Guderale
3. Gundumallay
4. Letchmi
5. Matupatty
6. Nullatani
7. Nyamakad
The KDHP company is having 16 factories. among these 7 are orthodox teas producing factories and 9
are CTC (cut tear curl) tea producing factories.

5. FUNCTIONAL DEPARTMENTS
1. Operational Department
2. Finance Department
3. System Department
4. Marketing Department
5. Non Tea Operation Department
6. R & D Department
7. Engineering Department
8. Human Resource Department
9. Industrial Relation Department
10. Administrative And Legal Department
11. Quality Control Department
12. Purchase And Logistics Department

6. MANUFACTURING PROCESS
• The green leaf that is received in the factory has a moisture of 80%-85%
• The moisture is reduced to around 70% though withering
• For withering ambient air is used. Hot air is used if the leaf is wet.
• After withering the leaf is passed through a green leaf SIFTER then through a
MINIRATOR and ROTERVANE for pre -conditioning the leaf for cutting.
• In the CTC process the CTC rollers crush, tear and curl the leaf
• Then the leaf goes into a fermenting drum where the leaf is kept for 90-120 minutes and the
leaf gets fermented.
• The fermentation time depends on the quality of leaf and the weather condition

7. •The leaf then goes into a dryer where hot air at 104⁰ C is passed to arrest
fermentation and reduce the moisture to around 2.8%
• The dryer mouth tea is then passed through fIBRE extractor (static current)
to clean the fiber and then sifter/sorter using various meshes to sorting the
tea according to the sizes
• Then the graded tea is packed for dispatch to various destinations

8. PHASES IN PRODUCTION
PHOTOS

9. CONCLUSION
The industrial visit at KDHP was a great experience to us. From
there we have got a chance to know about the exact working of
organization . Main attractive thing that we found in KDHP was
the management style in KDHP now is very different, that is all
workers are shareholders and members of management board.

10. SURVEY AT ERAVIKULAM NATIONAL PARK

11. SURVEY AT ERAVIKULAM NATIONAL PARK
• Main aim behind the survey was to identify the problems that are faced by visitors
and EDC (Eco Development Committee) members in Eravikulam National park
• The survey was conducted by our institution along with the forest department
• Our batch is divided into 5 groups for making the survey more convenient and
assigned each group to different places inside the park

12. OUR ROLE
• Our group consisting of 5 members
• Our role is to collect the feedback from the visitors who are coming after the visit
• We have a set of objective questions with options, we asked it to the visitors and made 30
different primary data

13. ANALYSIS OF PRIMARY DATA
Our questionnaire was aiming at the feeling of the visitors that they felt after the visit. We
included questions about the watchers, guides, safety measures in the park, etc. Most of the
visitors responded very positively to us. We analyzed the data

14. GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF PRIMARY DATA
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15. SOURCE OF INFORMATION
Travel Agencies
Internet
MagazinesOthers
INFORMATION
Travel Agencies Internet Magazines Others

16. ADVANTAGES
• Huge number of foreigners are getting information about the national park and the number
visitors are increasing
DISADVANTAGES
• Travel agencies are exploiting the visitors

17. MAJOR PROBLEMS
• LARGE QUEUE FOR TAKING TICKET
• LESS NUMBER OF BUSES FOR TRAVELLING TO THE TOP OF THE PARK
• WATCHERS ARE LESS SOCIABLE
• UNAVAILABILITY OF WATER AT TOP OF THE PARK

18. SUGGESTIONS
We can’t find solution for all the problems, but we can solve some of them very effectively
• INTRODUCE ONLINE TICKET BOOKING SYSTEM
• GIVE MORE TRAINING TO EDC MEMBERS

19. CONCLUSION
This survey was very beneficial for us. Through this research we
got some idea about how a research should be conducted.
Governments invention to save one species by making this national
park is appreciable one. We should promote and co-ordinate with
governments activities like this to save our nature and our world.